Melody Lynch, Department of Geography, Planning, Environment
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- Part-time teaching, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Political Ecology; Feminist Geography; Intersectionality; Marine Conservation; Indigenous Health; Environmental Justice; Environmental Contaminants; Urban Agriculture; Southeast Asia; Canadian Arctic
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Biography
Melody Lynch is a feminist political ecologist and human-environment geographer. In her research, she critically explores how socio-ecological processes affect the wellbeing of individuals and communities across lines of class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, generation and (dis)ability. Melody engages in interdisciplinary research and uses mixed methods to advance thinking about sustainability and environmental justice in developing contexts. Her research has focused on everyday politics and resistance in marine conservation, environmental contaminants and food safety, as well as Indigenous health. Her research is community-based, and she has undertaken fieldwork in Southeast Asia and the Canadian Arctic.
Teaching activities
GEOG 470: Environmental Management
URBS 338: Urban Ecology
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Lynch, M. (2025) Planting flowers for the bees: spirituality, emotion, and embodied subjectivities through relational practices of socioecological care. Social Science & Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117592.
Lynch, M. (2025) Degradation of the Great Barrier Reef (2016–). In J.J. Funke , W. Ahmed , I. Chatterjee & S.M. McCauley (Eds.). Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society (pp. 407–418). New York: Bloomsbury.
Pham, T.-T.-H., Lynch, M. and Turner, S. (2023) Creative counter-discourses to the “green city” narrative:practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. Local Environment. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2022.2162028.
Fletcher, C., Riva, M., Lyonnais, M.-C., Baron, A., Saunders, I., Lynch, M. and Baron, M. (2022) Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey: developing an inuit model and determinants of health and well-being. Canadian Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-022-00719-4.
Baron, M., Riva, M., Fletcher, C., Lynch, M., Lyonnais, M.C. and Laouan Sidi, E.A. (2021). Conceptualization and operationalization of a holistic indicator of health for elderly Inuit: results of a mixed-methods project. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02592-5.
Lynch, M. and Turner, S. (2021). Rocking the boat: intersectional resistance to marine conservation policies in Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia. Gender, Place & Culture. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1971630.